Stringendo vs. Accelerando: What's the Difference?

Played with an accelerating tempo. Used chiefly as a direction.

Gradually accelerating or quickening in time. Used chiefly as a direction.

(music) A passage in music to be played gradually faster; a section of music with in which the tempo slowly increases.

An accelerando passage or movement.

(music) Played with gradually increasing tempo.

(music) A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played at an increasing speed.

Urging or hastening the time, as to a climax.

(music) A passage having this mark.

(by extension) Accelerating or exponential advancement or development (of a thing).

(music) With a gradual increase in speed.

Gradually accelerating the movement.

A gradually increasing tempo of music;

Gradually increasing in tempo

With increasing speed;